The purpose of the study was to estimate the degree of familial resemblance in anthropometric indicators of fatness and fat distribution. The sample consisted of 327 Caucasian participants from 102 nuclear families. Indicators of fatness included the body mass index (BMI), the sum of six skinfolds (
Fat distribution in Cuban infants
✍ Scribed by María Elena Diaz; Minerva Montero; Iraida Wong; Vilma Moreno; Emilia Maria Toledo; Raisa Moreno
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 391 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1042-0533
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